Apr 29, 2007
Sweet, bland recommendations fall everywhere upon the sene; a universal, if somewhat lobotomized acommodation regins. A book is born into a puddle of treacle; teh brine of hostile criticism is only a memory. Everyone is found to have “filled a need,” and is to be “thanked” for somehting and to be excused for “minor faults in an otehrwise ecellent work.” “A thoroughly mature artist” appears many times a week and often daily; many are the bringers of thoser “messages the Free World will ignore at its peril.
The Decline of Book Reviewing

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